All 18 Uses of
efface
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The man who wrote that word upon the wall disappeared from the midst of the generations of man many centuries ago; the word, in its turn, has been effaced from the wall of the church; the church will, perhaps, itself soon disappear from the face of the earth.
Chpt Pref.effaced = removed completely from recognition or memory
- It even effaced it so completely from her mind, that she continued to question her goat.†
Chpt 1.2.3
- The limits of races and species seemed effaced in this city, as in a pandemonium.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- This memory, effaced by his own adventures of the evening, now recurred to him.†
Chpt 1.2.7
- The man, the artist, the individual, is effaced in these great masses, which lack the name of their author; human intelligence is there summed up and totalized.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- Little by little, the tide of houses, always thrust from the heart of the city outwards, overflows, devours, wears away, and effaces this wall.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Gothic Paris, beneath which Roman Paris was effaced, was effaced in its turn; but can any one say what Paris has replaced it?†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Gothic Paris, beneath which Roman Paris was effaced, was effaced in its turn; but can any one say what Paris has replaced it?†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Thus the historical significance of its architecture is being effaced every day.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Nevertheless, when the sun of the Middle Ages is completely set, when the Gothic genius is forever extinct upon the horizon, architecture grows dim, loses its color, becomes more and more effaced.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- , the architectural form of the edifice effaces itself more and more, and allows the geometrical form, like the bony structure of an emaciated invalid, to become prominent.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- He had, nevertheless, received from his family some education and some politeness of manner; but he had been thrown on the world too young, he had been in garrison at too early an age, and every day the polish of a gentleman became more and more effaced by the rough friction of his gendarme's cross-belt.†
Chpt 2.7.1
- There were, moreover, Gothic letters, Hebrew letters, Greek letters, and Roman letters, pell-mell; the inscriptions overflowed at haphazard, on top of each other, the more recent effacing the more ancient, and all entangled with each other, like the branches in a thicket, like pikes in an affray.†
Chpt 2.7.4
- He had done this with so much unrelenting animosity that the inscription, ~Eduensis episcopus~, had become almost effaced.†
Chpt 2.7.7
- These souvenirs, half effaced and almost obliterated by excess of suffering, were revived by the sombre figure which stood before her, as the approach of fire causes letters traced upon white paper with invisible ink, to start out perfectly fresh.†
Chpt 2.8.4
- At all events, I hoped that a new impression would efface the first, and the first had become insupportable.
Chpt 2.8.4 *efface = remove completely from recognition or memory
- All the hideous phantoms, Pierrat Torterue, Jacques Charmolue, were effaced from her mind, all, even the priest.
Chpt 2.9.4effaced = removed completely from recognition or memory
- All was effaced, all was black.†
Chpt 2.9.4
Definition:
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(efface as in: efface the memory) remove completely from recognition or memory -- sometimes by erasing